Need end of Month

[Jerry Tilsley]

All,

Using TCL, what is the best way to obtain what the last day of the current month is?

Thanks,

Jerry

Topic

[Charlie Bursell]

First a little proc to get number of days in the month

proc numberofdays {month year} {

  if {$month==12} {set month 0; incr year}

  clock format [clock scan “[incr month]/1/$year  1 day ago”]

       -format %d

}

Then  get string like

set dt [clock format [clock seconds] -format “%m %y”]

lassign $dt month year

set day [numberofdays $month $year]

set dayofweek [clock format [clock scan $month/$day/$year] -format %A]

Lot of code but it works  😀

[Charlie Bursell]

First a little proc to get number of days in the month

proc numberofdays {month year} {

  if {$month==12} {set month 0; incr year}

  clock format [clock scan “[incr month]/1/$year  1 day ago”]

       -format %d

}

Then  get string like

set dt [clock format [clock seconds] -format “%m %y”]

lassign $dt month year

set day [numberofdays $month $year]

set dayofweek [clock format [clock scan $month/$day/$year] -format %A]

Lot of code but it works  😀

[Ryan Spires]

Think i got it this time…

set lastDayOfMonth [clock format [clock scan “[clock format [clock scan “1 month”] -format %m/01/%Y] -1 day”] -format %m%d%Y]

breaking it out:

set firstDayNextMonth [clock format [clock scan “1 month”] -format %m/01/%Y]

set lastDayThisMonth [clock format [clock scan “$firstDayNextMonth -1 day”]]

[Jim Kosloskey]

Does anyone know if the Tcl Date commands internally compensate for the following:

“years divisible by 100 aren’t leap years unless they’re a multiple of 400”?

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

[Robert Milfajt]

You learn something new every day.  Thanks Jim, I did not know that 4, 100, 400 thing…

Robert Milfajt
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL

[Jeff Dinsmore]

Are wondering if you can schedule procedures for 02/29/2100? ;o)

My current 8.4 Tcl installation only calculates dates up to 12/31/2037 – on both Linux and Windows.

Apparently, Tcl 8.5 does not have this limitation. I don’t have 8.5 installed, but if someone does, it’d be easy to check.

clock format [clock scan “02/29/”] -format “%m/%d/%Y”

…should return either an error like “can’t convert date” or 03/01/

Jeff Dinsmore
Chesapeake Regional Healthcare

[Scott Folley]

From what I understand (and I can’t really speak for tcl 8.5 yet) the TCL date commands operate using epoch seconds (seconds since UTC 1 JAN 1970 00:00:00).  In a positive direction this causes it to exceed maxint in a positive direction in 2037.  More alarming and a bigger hassle is the fact that ages of people born before ~1903 exceed maxint in a negative direction.  In healthcare THAT is a calculation and a problem that you WILL be forced to deal with at some point.  😉

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